Elisabeth Maier
Elisabeth Maier (née
Vathje) (born March 17, 1994, in
Calgary,
Alberta) is a retired Canadian
skeleton racer. In 2008, she was encouraged to try sliding sports by her father, who had shared an airplane trip with members of the Canadian luge team, but as a 14-year-old, she was too young to train bobsleigh, so she tried out for skeleton instead. She used a Bromley sled. Vathje was named one of the three women to represent Canada in
skeleton at the 2018 Winter Olympics in
Pyeongchang after finishing third in the World Cup season standings for
2017–18. She is married to Austrian bobsleigh driver
Benjamin Maier. She retired in 2022 after being left off the Canadian team for the 2021–22 season.
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